//mission 6// [video/txt/action]

[cardboard_boss]

[For once the feed snaps on to show Venom in a calm state, not pressing the MID on by mistake. He's mastered that now. Similar to an iDroid in that regard. A thin trail of smoke blows across the screen, as he shifts into position to talk.]

Just wanted to ask if anyone wants combat or self defence training. I'm willing to teach those who want to learn.

[He thought it would be a good idea, since he didn't know what the missions the captains would send them on next. Always good to know how to fight and defend yourself, right?]

Only asking, since it might help defend ourselves against threats during missions in the future. If anyone wants to contact me I'm on the MID and currently in the training room.

[He didn't usually advertise to teach skills but why not? If he could train people up aboard the Moira, it wouldn't be that much different to Diamond Dogs. Trained crew was always a good thing in Venom's books. He inhaled his cigar and let out the smoke slowly before asking his last question.]

Just one more question. Can you actually die aboard this ship or do you go into some kind of stasis? [He's always wanted to ask that, more out of morbid curiosity.]

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[devilofohara]

[Well... To say that she only kills when she has to isn't entirely true - Ahab is speaking to a future assassin, actually! But doesn't want to kill everyone she has to fight, and she'd rather there be some choice in the matter.]

It was on a table. I think the other scholars were studying it - it's hard to remember, though. I was really little.

[Sorry Ahab, there's no magic tree full of armfruits growing anywhere.]

Do they not have Devil Fruit where you come from?

[cardboard_boss]

[Ahab nodded as he listened. Sounded as if they were studying the properties of the strange fruit and little Nico had ingested some, not knowing what the outcome would be.]

No. We don't have anything like that back where I come from. We've got bananas thought. They're pretty good. [Lots of bananas back in Costa Rica. He practically lived off them during missions in the jungle when he wasn't eating rations or native wildlife.]

You got bananas on your world?

[devilofohara]

Yeah, we have bananas. They didn't grow on my island, though, so I've only had one or two. It was good, though, from what I remember - way better than the devil fruit tasted.

[One of the costs of having cool superpowers is that the means to get them tastes absolutely vile.]

...so do you think you can teach me or not? I don't know of anyone who has a power that's anything like mine, so I need help figuring out how to use them the best way.

[cardboard_boss]

[Bananas taste awesome. Enough about fruit and onto the training.]

Yeah, I can teach you. Your power is unique I'll give you that. Not exactly like training a raw recruit in how to fire a gun. [Ahab shrugged but found this to be a new experience for him. What was it like being aboard an alien spaceship? Now, he knew he wanted to try something new.]

Want do you want me to help you focus on?

[devilofohara]

[She's more than willing to talk about weird fruit, of course - just not right now. Now is a time for fight-learning.

At his question, though, Robin thinks very carefully about the precise sort of thing she wants to learn.]

Is there a way for me to knock someone out without killing them, or hitting them over the head?

[Pure concussive force isn't exactly her strong suit, after all - both because of the odd angles that her arms would end up having to hit someone at, and because she's just a child.]

It's okay if it hurts them a lot - I just want another way to do this.